Biathlon World Cup
Emotional farewell: Bö-Brüder celebrated in the last race
23.03.2025 – 5:33 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
At the same time, two sizes of biathlon sports end their careers. The home audience cheers the German biathletes in the meantime nothing to do with the victory.
Large emotions and a moving farewell to the wooden scooters: The brothers Johannes Thingnes and Tarjei Bö have been celebrated in front of their career in front of their home audience at the last World Cup race. Despite missed podium places in the mass start, they were loudly cheered by the fans.
The Swede Sebastian Samuelsson won the race, who won with just one round of penalty. Johannes Thingnes Bö took seventh place with four shooting errors and a gap of 41.1 seconds. His brother Tarjei finished 23rd after a penalty round and a gap of 3: 04.4 minutes. The best German was Roman Rees, who reached 15th place with a penalty round and 1: 36.8 minutes. Philipp Nawrath was 20th, Danilo Riethmüller followed in 22nd place and Justus Strelow took 27th place. Philipp Horn refrained from starting because the DSV, according to its own, did not want to take “any health risks” in terms of health.
Before the race on social media, Johannes Thingnes Bö had contacted his brother: “Let’s do it again, brother,” he wrote on Instagram. After a cold with a fever, Tarjei had become fit again in time, but had previously had to do without sprint and persecution on the spar. In the final start of the mass, the brothers did not run at the top, but that didn’t matter that day – the focus was on the emotional farewell.
The Bö-Brüder want to spend more time with their families in the future. The effort for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Antholz was too great for them. Johannes Thingnes Bö had recently crowned himself sole record world champion in Lenzerheide with his titles 21 to 23 and replaced Ole Einar Björndalen in this statistics. In total, he won 80 World Cup individual races and five times the large crystal ball. At the Olympics he also secured five gold medals.
“The primeval power” Johannes Thingnes “won enough,” said his five -year -old brother Tarjei with a wink. Tarjei also looks back on an impressive career: he won three times Olympic, once the overall World Cup and won a total of twelve world championship titles.